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While CM Deshmukh is gobbling public property, poor farmers are again getting short end of the stick. Please read about sorry state of affairs, looks like another Nandigram and Singur in making:

Nagpur women tonsure their heads to protest farmland acquisition

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->After rocking West Bengal for months early this year, the issue has now entered Maharashtra. <b>The government here has acquired 14 villages in Nagpur for a planned 30-billion-rupees cargo hub spread over 2,556 hectares near the airport. </b>
But this has not gone well with the villagers. And, to mark their protest, women in Shipangaon village, which is home to about 10,000 people, have tonsured their heads. This unique protest move came a week after authorities did not respond to a similar protest by their menfolk.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Our village is not getting benefits of farm culture, what else can we then do? We want our village... men have been getting themselves tonsured, no one noticed, so ladies have got down to it now... we are facing lots of problems, how do we farm, eat, feed our children?" said Maina Bai Khobragare, a protester.

"We still haven't got any compensation. Because of that, we are being stretched to feed ourselves...tonsuring was done to send a message to the government about our problems... no official has come till now," said Ram Rao, another villager.
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